Are you interested in the fast-paced world of Finance? Are you fascinated with the ways in which investments in businesses are evaluated and made? Here is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see it all unfold as you spend your day with Max DeZara, Founding Partner of Akoya Capital Partners, LLC.

Akoya Capital Partners is a sector-focused private equity firm that invests in middle market businesses with attractive growth prospects. They bring together industry leaders, investment worthy executives, and private sources of capital to execute acquisition-based strategies to create significant value for sellers, management and investors. They focus on investments in companies that operate in a targeted industry sectors, have revenues from $20 to $200 million and have EBITDA in excess of $3 million. 

Private equity firms generally receive a return on their investments through one of the following avenues:

• an initial public offering (IPO) — shares of the company are offered to the public, typically providing a partial immediate realization to the financial sponsor as well as a public market into which it can later sell additional shares;


• a merger or acquisition — the company is sold for either cash or shares in another company;


• a Recapitalization — cash is distributed to the shareholders (in this case the financial sponsor) and its private equity funds either from cash flow generated by the company or through raising debt or other securities to fund the distribution

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